This paper is organised around the problem of environmental monitoring and ambient environmental monitoring, as parts of social computing and the Internet of Things areas of research. In recent times, the use of sensing devices and technologies has had increasing significant interest in many fields, some remarkable results being achieved, particularly with evaluating, monitoring and analysing the air quality. The main purpose of the system developed in our project is to introduce a way to monitor the air quality in a given room, advancing the possibility of viewing history or even real-time data via a web service. Although the level of hardware is abstracted, the focus is on the problem that it addresses and on solving it, as well.

This paper is organised around the problem of environmental monitoring and ambient environmental monitoring, as parts of social computing and the Internet of Things areas of research. In recent times, the use of sensing devices and technologies has had increasing significant interest in many fields, some remarkable results being achieved, particularly with evaluating, monitoring, and analysing the air quality. The main purpose of the system developed in our project is to introduce a way to monitor the air quality in a given room, advancing the possibility of viewing history or even real-time data via a web service. Although the level of hardware is abstracted, the focus is on the problem that it addresses and on solving it, as well.